Buchanan School 8th Grade Graduates 1916 Photograph

Collection

Identifier: 2015-04

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of one sepia toned 9 x 13" landscape photographic print; group of graduates and female teacher dated January 1916; handwriting on back provides names, School No. 14 Buchanan, 6th and Oak Street Davenport Iowa.

Dates

Creation: 1916

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This collection is open for research.

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Biographical / Historical

Buchanan School was built and opened in 1904. The architect was G.A. Hanssen. It had twelve rooms, was two stories tall, had an attic and a basement. The last time the school appears in Davenport city directories is 1939.

Photo belonged to Romola Cheney Tulloch, daughter of Burton Henry Cheney and Anna Susan Moore. Burton Cheney was a Congregational minister who served the church in Davenport for a time. Romola was married to David Valentine Tulloch and she died October 10, 1988 in Carlsbad, New Mexico. Romola's younger sister, Edith Cheney Sears, died 2006 in North Dakota.